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Sarah Good Trial
After the success of convicting Bishop, Sarah Good was quickly convicted and sentenced to death -
Susannah Martin Trial
Like Bishop, she had been accused of witchcraft before, but the charges had been dropped for lack of evidence. Her bad reputation may have spread to Salem by 1692, when four of the afflicted girls in Salem accused her by name, claiming her specter had attacked them. Despite the general lack of evidence against her, Martin was also convicted and hanged on July 19, the same day as Sarah Good. -
Martha Carrier Trial
Her two teenage sons, torturing them into confessing to witchcraft themselves, and implicating their mother. “Her family was very unpopular,” Burns says of Carrier; they were thought to have brought smallpox to Andover. After Carrier was accused, the authorities interrogated her two teenage sons, torturing them into confessing to witchcraft themselves, and implicating their mother. -
Martha Cory Trial
Rebecca Nurse, Martha Cory, was a covenanted member of her church and community. She attracted suspicion after preventing her husband, Giles, from attending witch trials. Martha's defiant attitude led court officials against her, and Giles refused to corroborate her testimony. Martha was found guilty and sentenced to death. -
Bridget Bishop Trial
Bridget was accused, as the prosecutor assumed her case would be easy to win, Bishop had been accused of witchcraft more than a decade earlier, but was acquitted for lack of evidence. She also fit everyone’s idea of a witch: elderly, poor and argumentative. Ten witnesses testified against Bishop, and she was quickly found guilty and sentenced to death. On June 10, she was taken to Proctor’s Ledge near Gallows Hill in Salem and hanged by the neck until she was dead.